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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MYTHOLOGICAL CHARIOT GROUP OF APOLLO
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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MYTHOLOGICAL CHARIOT GROUP OF APOLLO

LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. 3., IMPRESSED 99 AND 51., PAINTER'S 1.

Closed15 April 2011

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN MYTHOLOGICAL CHARIOT GROUP OF APOLLO
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, INCISED MODEL NO. 3., IMPRESSED 99 AND 51., PAINTER'S 1.
The sun god wearing a 'jeweled' cloak fastened at his shoulder, seated in a chariot drawn by four prancing horses among clouds bursting with sun beams, his putto attendant holding golden devices, the stepped lobed base molded with bands of flutes and flower-heads, an applied laurel garland suspended from gilt rings below
19 in. (48.2 cm.) wide (3)

Specialist note

See Dr. K. Berling, Meissen China Illustrated History, New York, 1972, p. 65-6 for a discussion of this series of allegorical and mythological groups originally designed in 1772-74 for the Meissen room at the Oranienbaum Palace of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg. Also see Pietsch, Meissen für die Zaren, Munich, 2004, p.112, no. 169, abb. 42.